On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:02:09 +0100, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 01/17/2011 08:07 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Although I'm not that a big fan of the move, I won't be pessimistic
about it. :P
For e.g. webapps it is IMHO perfectly fine.
But Delphi Prism would be just as fine and still be preserve some
Object Pascal competence.
It's still important (as a company) to think about the future. Yes, it
may be better/easier for your current employees who worked with Delphi
to switch to Prism and have .NET with a slightly lesser learning curve.
But what about new employees? What if you need external consultants
etc.? It's a *lot* easier to find C# (Java, C++ ... even Python)
developers than Delphi developers. Does that say anything about their
quality? Ofcourse not, but for an HR department it's important to have a
huge pool of candidates, otherwise their (often strict and nearly blind)
processes fail.
Also: C# isn't that huge of a step from Delphi. You really can see that
a former Borland designer was responsible for the initial language and
IDE.
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